Dude, just don't pay your taxes

I mean, you didn't have to fly your airplane into a building. Right?

That's what Joe Stacks did Thursday morning when he flew his private airplane into a building that housed the IRS and the CIA in Austin, Texas. His online "suicide note" said it all; he was angry with the government and the catholic church for "steeling" his money. I read the entire post online, and it made some sense, up until he wrote "Violence isn't just the answer; it's the only answer." He hoped the bodies would pile up until the government was forced to change its ways. Although he wrote about how our health care system just sits back and allows people to die, his primary concern was with government theft of his hard earned money.

So just don't pay your taxes. People find ways around it all the time. How about starting your own engineering business and not incorporating it? There's no real need to pay taxes if you don't want to. There's also no need to go out and kill people.

It's an act of domestic terrorism, the third act of terroristic violence this year following the Fort Hood shootings and the Christmas Day bomber. In less than two years, we've now seen three acts of major violence from people that feel the same way Stacks did. It doesn't sound like a lot, but when was the last time we've seen five acts of terrorism this open in a 13-month span?

The time for violent revolution is over. If we didn't rise up and violently overthrow this country's previous regime for deliberate and repeated murder of our citizens and the people of Iraq, why take to violence now to try to change something that's been a problem for decades. It's called non-violent resistance, and if you decide the government has too much involvement in your life, protest or find a way to disconnect yourself from that "system." You don't need to disconnect other people.

The battle over taxes, health care, etc., etc. is a battle over ideology.

Any ideological battle really just comes down to an argument over which side is smarter.

When violence comes into play, the perpetrator forfeits his right to participate in that battle.